There's some story we missed this week about Anne Hathaway's ex-boyfriend and some fraud and conspiracy charges that recently landed him in jail. This story gives a lot of details (our favorite being that he paid "lowly church officials to dress up in Vatican robes to make it appear he was well connected").
But the best reporting on this story comes from ABC News, which felt it necessary to get a professional's perspective on this whole thing:
"The easiest thing about the con is people think they're getting the better end of deal," Todd Robbins, the author of "The Modern Con Man: How to Get Something for Nothing." "The person perpetrating the crime makes people think he has some inside information that other people don't have, that they can use for their benefit. He fans the flames of the victims' greed."
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